spread | |
1. v. To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space. | |
He spread his newspaper on the table. | |
2. v. To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions. | |
I spread my arms wide and welcomed him home. | |
3. v. To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area. | |
I spread the rice grains evenly over the floor. | |
4. v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated. | |
5. v. To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present. | |
The missionaries quickly spread their new message across the country. | |
6. v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended. | |
I dropped my glass; the water spread quickly over the tiled floor. | |
7. v. To smear, to distribute in a thin layer. | |
She liked to spread butter on her toast while it was still hot. | |
8. v. To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter. | |
He always spreads his toast with peanut butter and strawberry jam. | |
9. v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions. | |
to spread a table | |
10. v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours. | |
11. n. The act of spreading. | |
12. n. Something that has been spread. | |
13. n. (cartomancy) A layout, pattern or design of cards arranged for a reading. | |
14. n. An expanse of land. | |
15. n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch. | |
16. n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread). | |
17. n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table. | |
18. n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread, such as butters or jams. | |
19. n. (prison slang) Food improvised by inmates from various ingredients to relieve the tedium of prison food. | |
Synonyms: swole | |
20. n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page. | |
21. n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc. | |
22. n. A numerical difference. | |
23. n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices. | |
24. n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another month of the same commodity. | |
25. n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another futures delivery month of the same commodity. | |
26. n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery month of a different commodity. | |
27. n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of a profit from price discrepancies. | |
28. n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price. | |
29. n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items. | |
30. n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points. | |
31. n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone. | |